Editing Leonard Peltier (section)

===Victim of prison violence===
On January 13, 2009, Peltier was beaten by inmates at the [[United States Penitentiary, Canaan]], where he had been transferred from [[Federal Correctional Institution, Lewisburg|USP Lewisburg]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Caleb T. Maupin |date=2009-01-29 |title=Leonard Peltier attacked in prison |url=https://www.workers.org/2009/us/leonard_peltier_0205/ |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=[[Workers World (newspaper)|Workers World]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-01-21 |title=Relatives Say Peltier Beaten Following Prison Transfer |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/21/headlines/relatives_say_peltier_beaten_following_prison_transfer |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=[[Democracy Now!]] |language=en}}</ref> He was sent back to Lewisburg, where he remained until the fall of 2011, when he was transferred to a federal penitentiary in Florida. According to ''[[High Country News]]'' in 2016: "Everywhere he's been, inmates have jumped and beaten him, likely with the collusion of guards."<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Baughman |first=Mike |date=2016-07-20 |title=How Leonard Peltier has unjustly spent forty years in prison — and why it's time to change that |url=http://www.hcn.org/issues/48-12/how-leonard-peltier-has-unjustly-spent-forty-years-in-prison-and-why-its-time-to-change-that/ |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=High Country News |language=en-US |quote=Everywhere he’s been, inmates have jumped and beaten him, likely with the collusion of guards. Now he is going blind from diabetes, suffers from kidney failure and is susceptible to strokes. |ref=July 2016 HCN}}</ref>